Week 7, Post A

Nineteen Minutes

VOCAB

1.) Molotov (251): Soviet politician who was head of the Council of People's Commissars (1930-1941) and foreign minister (1939-1949 and 1953-1956).
2.) Crocuses (252):the flower or bulb of the crocus.

FIG LANGUAGE

1.) Imagery. "Josie glanced from the serviceable gray tile floor to the cinder-block walls, from the iron bars that isolated Dispatch from the sitting area to the heavy door with its automatic lock"(273). This quote is clearly imagery because it describes the jail as Josie is seeing it and you can imagine how it must look.
2.) Metaphor. "What they'd lost was written across their faces, a collective scar"(264). This quote is a metaphor because you could see what a person lost through their expressions but it wouldnt leave a scar but it might have left an inner scar.
3.) Similie. "How questions could build up like the pressure inside a champagne bottle"(274). This quote is a similie because it uses "like" but also, it compares building up questions to the pressure in a champagne bottle.

QUOTE

"Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest-learning when it was better to lie, rather than hurt someone witht eh truth. [...] it was why she was talking about camp and stuffed animals - the hallmarks of the son she remembered - instead of discovering who he had become. But Peter had never learned how to say one thing when he meant another. It was one of the reasons he'd been hurt so many times"(257). This quote was the turning point in the novel when lacy realizes that her son, Peter, knows that she cannot handle the fact he is in jail. She has gone so far to lying in order to make him not be hurt anymore with the truth that other kids have ruined his life with.

THEME

Relating to above, a major theme is lying rather than hurting someone with the truth. This is what is needed to do in order to make someone feel better about themselves even though it is not true. Lacy does this to her son in order to get other the truth that he is in jail.